Larry Wilmore Quotes

“I love writing family stories.”

— Larry Wilmore

“Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.”

— Larry Wilmore

You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.

— Larry Wilmore

“"Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are being completely honest and 100 percent real means you are really being honest, which is kind of a contradiction of sorts. You're either being honest or you're not.”

— Larry Wilmore

“The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them,”

— Larry Wilmore

“During my career as a standup and actor, I realized it was very frustrating for me to get hired because Hollywood was hiring a different kind of brother, you know, and I was doing political humor. In order for me to really have a long career, I'm going to have to learn how to write and produce for myself. I had no idea I was really going to like it and I'm very fortunate to be successful. But the idea was to always eventually create something for myself. That was the idea from the beginning when I went into writing and producing.”

— Larry Wilmore

I started as a standup comic and an actor.

— Larry Wilmore

“I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come more from the guilt-ridden, neurotic type of [ - ] I have more in common with the Jewish brand of comedy.”

— Larry Wilmore

“I do believe that the Mormon Church is at kind of an awakening, in two different ways: More people are becoming aware of it, and it's becoming a force to be reckoned with. There's a lot of Mormon converts globally.”

— Larry Wilmore

My basic political philosophy is, I ain't mad at that. Which basically means I don't have to have a strong opinion about everything. I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes I'm just not mad at it. Like, What do you think about gay marriage? I ain't mad at you, you're gay and you're married: I ain't mad at you, go do it.

— Larry Wilmore

“I don't care if my opinion falls on the right or the left. I'm more of what I call a passionate centrist. I just believe what I believe. I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.”

— Larry Wilmore

“Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.”

— Larry Wilmore

“I don't want to slam somebody else's religion. I mean as a Catholic, we're basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?”

— Larry Wilmore

We, Catholics, share many of the moral guidelines of Mormons, the difference is you guys take it seriously. When the church says something we don't agree with we say, "Oh don't be so crazy." We just laugh it off.

— Larry Wilmore

“It was tough when people would say, "Aren't you so excited?" about the new show and I couldn't really say, "Yes, well, I'm going through a divorce right now, too."”

— Larry Wilmore

“I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.”

— Larry Wilmore

“When I was a kid, there was kind of a given that there were some really bad, racist police out there. That's just what America was like when I was a kid.”

— Larry Wilmore

“When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.”

— Larry Wilmore

“Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.”

— Larry Wilmore

“I've always been sort of entrepreneurial ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.”

— Larry Wilmore